Winston Wächter Fine Art Artist Program 2024

Deb Achak

Deb Achak is a visual artist and storyteller whose large-scale photographs explore the metaphysical and emotional link between the human and natural world.

After stepping away from a 15-year career as a mental health social worker, Achak began her photography practice, employing a visual medium to continue her exploration of the interior lives of herself and others. Curious to examine the notion of our internal selves, she leans into the elasticity of photography by employing several genres within the medium. Achak’s practice includes swimming with her camera throughout the world, personal narratives created near her home, and painterly abstract florals inspired by baroque paintings.

Deb Achak’s work has been exhibited widely national and internationally, in institutions such as The National Museum of Anthropology in Tabasco, Mexico, The Lishui Museum of Art in Lishui, China, and The Sofia Photography Festival in Sophia, Bulgaria, The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, the Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville SC, among many others. Her work has been featured in publications including Fraction, All About Photo, Lenscratch, Destig, Luxe Interiors, Dodho, and Domino.

Deb Achak, Personal Space (No. 8), 2021, Digital archival fine art print, 20 x 30 inches, 30 x 45 inches, 40 x 60 inches

Rena Bass Forman

Rena Bass Forman is known for her visually stunning sepia-toned images of the natural landscape and exotic locales. Bass Forman’s large-format photographs, taken with a 2¼ inch camera, document the changes of light, water, climate, and their affects on the landscape. Her work often focused on the vastly different landscapes of Sri Lanka, Newfoundland, Labrador, the Pacific Northwest and Italy.

The overall sense of tranquility in her work results from the pristine natural settings featured in her images, as well as from the compositional balance between light, land and sky. The painterly quality of her work is similar to the 19th century American landscapists, and offers the viewer a sense of inner silence and meditative serenity.

Rena Bass Forman, Iceland #14, Snaefellsnes Peninsula, 2001, Toned gelatin silver print, printed 2002, 30 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches

Installed in a private collection

Christopher Boffoli

Northwest-based artist Christopher Boffoli creates clever photographic vignettes. His process is combining miniature, hand-painted figurines from Germany with staged arrangements of food and beverages.

He is inspired by an unusual combination of magazine food photography and the 18th century fable “Gulliver’s Travels.” Boffoli explores how inverting the proportions of people and their surroundings creates unexpected points of interest. These creative scenes evoke an uncanny, albeit theatrically portrayed, likeness to the world at large.

Boffoli also uses language to enhance the photographic narratives. He selects tongue-in-cheek titles that draw on old adages and colloquial sayings and witty repartees, which adds another level of interest to the work.

Christopher Boffoli, Bourbon Technicians, 2020, Archival ink print with acrylic dibond mounting

Katherine Bowling

New York-based painter Katherine Bowling is known for her meditative and luminous paintings depicting scenes and landscapes taken from the Hudson Valley area where she lives. Bowling’s paintings and prints emulate the tradition of the Hudson River School of the 19th century, using mystery and quiet symbolism to infuse a Romanticist aesthetic into the details of the landscape. Her use of space within her compositions combined with an expressive technique help to pull her practice into the 21st century.

Katherine Bowling was born in Washington, DC and earned her BFA at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1978. She has been exhibiting her work since the early 1980s in New York City and throughout the United States. Bowling has received numerous awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1991. Her work is featured in public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL; Phoenix Art Museum, AZ; and the Fisher Landau Center, NY, among others.

Katherine Bowling, Summer Sun, 2022, Oil on spackle on wood panel, 36 x 38 inches

Installed at Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York

John Bowman

John Bowman is the Professor of Art at the Pennsylvania State University. In addition to his love of teaching art, he is a founder of “First Street Green,” a collaborative community group in the East Village of New York City. Bowman recently participated in “Service to Public Areas,” a collaborative public art project in Shkodra, Albania.

Beginning in the 1980s, he exhibited at various venues in New York City including the Holly Solomon Gallery, the Lang O’Hara Gallery, and the Tibor de Nagy Gallery. He has shown internationally and is represented in many private and museum collections. He previously taught at the New York Academy of Art and has lectured widely.

John Bowman, Zentrum, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 46 x 46 inches

Installed at Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York

Alicia Brown

Alicia received a BFA in Painting, and a diploma in Art Education from Edna Manley College of the Visual Performing Arts and an MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art in 2014. She has been a recipient of the Dawn Scott Memorial award from the Jamaica Biennial 2017, two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants 2019 and 2021, the Joan Brady Foundation Grant 2013 and LCU Foundation Grants 2012 and 2014. Alicia has attended residencies at the Leipzig International Art Program in Germany and the Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ residency in Massachusetts. Exhibitions have included the 2017 Jamaica Biennial, Prizm Art Fair Miami, Jamaica Spiritual 2017 London, Painting the Figure Now 2019 Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art. She has had a solo show at Studio 174 in Kingston, Jamaica 2016 and Virago Gallery, Seattle Washington 2019 and UUU Art Collective Gallery 2022. Her work has been featured in Beautiful Bizarre magazine, American Art Collector, Colossal magazine, Painting the Figure Now 2019 magazine, SHOUT MIAMI magazine, ARTIT voice of Artists Magazine, Caribbean Quarterly Journal and other publications. Her work is in notable collections such as the Bennet Collection of Women Realists and other private collections.

Alicia Brown, Cameal, 2021, Oil on canvas, 36 x 28 inches

Installed at Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York

Andrew Casto

Andrew Casto (b. Ohio, USA, 1977) lives and works in Iowa City, USA. He was the 2011 MJD fellow at The Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Art in Helena, Montana, and has exhibited work internationally in Spain, Croatia, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Belgium, China, Switzerland, France, and Japan. Casto was a recipient of a 2015 Emerging Artist award by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), and was a finalist for the 2017 Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize with Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London. Casto has exhibited in over seventy group exhibitions, with recent solo exhibitions at Galleria Salvatore Lanteri in Milan in 2016, Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami in 2017, and Eutectic Gallery in 2019. He is currently Associate Professor of Art and Program Head of Ceramics at The University of Iowa.

Andrew Casto, Chasmastican, 2022

Porcelain, gold and white gold, 5½ x 5 x 18 inches

Installed at Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York

Nicole Charbonnett

Nicole Charbonnet‘s work is something to look at as well as to look through. Each of her paintings are layered by collaging, sanding, scraping, carving, and re-painting. The superimposition of textures, images, words, washes of paint, and veils of translucent fabric and paper creates a visual threshold.

These surfaces retain or reveal a “memory” of pre-existing stages or structures. In the resulting palimpsests, some images, colors, textures are obfuscated, while others remain visible, however shaped or shaded by previous or subsequent gestures or events.

Nicole Charbonnet is a New Orleans-based artist who got her B.A from the University of Virginia and an M.F.A from Boston University. Her work has been shown throughout the United States including Seattle, Louisiana, Georgia, and California. She is the recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant.

Nicole Charbonnet, Pattern (Flowers No. 19), Mixed media on canvas, 48 x 36 inches

Installed in a private collection

Ed Cohen

New York-based artist Ed Cohen uses fluid acrylics to create vibrant and luscious abstract paintings. After carefully selecting the colors and overall form of each piece, Cohen applies the paint freely and instinctively. This captures the natural fluidity and sleek texture unique to this medium.

His finished paintings suggest a nuanced combination of control and spontaneity. Cohen’s acrylic marks are surprisingly expressive. The paintings have a sense of energy, emotion and attitude. Though his paintings recall the splattered paint style of the abstract expressionists, they draw on Zen Buddhist philosophy.

Ed Cohen, You always wanted to go beyond poetry, 2020, Fluid acrylic on canvas, 16 x 16 inches

Susan Dory

Susan Dory creates abstract paintings which investigate issues of repetition, variation, and time. Her biomorphic and linear shapes congregate and reorganize in complex, structured patterns across a seemingly space-less field.

By overlapping translucent shapes, she creates a layering effect that consequently serves as a visual document of time. This effect not only allows viewers to see through one shape and into another, it also creates a distinct, tactile quality to the pristine surfaces of her paintings.

Dory has received both national and local awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the Willard R. Espy Foundation Artist-in-Residence Fellowship and the Behnke Foundation’s Neddy Artist Fellowship.

Susan Dory, Holiday, 2024, acrylic on canvas over panel, 60 x 52 inches

Betsy Eby

Betsy Eby’s paintings give the impression of organic, lyrical buoyancy and sprawl. As a Northwest native, Eby is influenced by daily observations of the old growth forests and natural phenomenon of petal blooms, migratory bird paths, flowing water, frost, and mist.

She is also influenced by a lifelong practice of classical piano. In particular, she pays attention to its compositional rhythms and poetic meter. Some of her works are an exploration of the synesthetic relationship between classical music and the visual experience.

Eby creates a sense of depth and movement in her work through the build up of multiple layers of beeswax. She is only finished when there is an intricate and lively interplay between receding and emerging forms.

Betsy Eby received her BA from the University of Oregon. She and her husband, painter Bo Bartlett, split their time between studios in Columbus, Georgia, and Wheaton Island, Maine. She savors the spaciousness and light of both of these studios, and her paintings evoke the atmosphere of the vast ocean that surrounds her small island residence in Maine. Her work has been shown and collected by the Georgia Museum of Art and the Columbus Museum, and she has shown frequently with Winston Wachter Fine Art in both the Seattle and New York galleries.

Betsy Eby, The Future in a Single Atom, 2022, Oil, hot wax and cold wax on panel, 60 x 60 inches

Installed in a private collection

Zaria Forman

Zaria Forman documents climate change with pastel drawings. She travels to remote regions of the world to collect images and inspiration for her work, which is exhibited worldwide. She has flown with NASA on several Operation IceBridge missions over Antarctica, Greenland, and Arctic Canada. She was featured on CBS Sunday Morning, CNN, PBS, and BBC. She delivered a TEDTalk, and spoke at Amazon, Google, and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, exhibited in Banksy’s Dismaland, and was the artist-in-residence aboard the National Geographic Explorer in Antarctica. Forman curated the first ever, permanent, polar art exhibitions aboard Lindblad Expeditions National Geographic Endurance and the National Geographic Resolution. Her works have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, and the Smithsonian Magazine. Forman currently works and resides in upstate New York, and is represented by Winston Wächter Fine Art in New York, NY and Seattle, WA.

Zaria Forman, Jakobshavn Glacier, Greenland, 69° 4’51.58”N 49°28’24.41”W, April 29th, 2017, 2018, Soft Pastel on paper, 14 x 11 inches

Installed at Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York

Zaria Forman, Fellsfiara, Iceland, No. 11, April 24, 2022, 2023, soft pastel on paper, 60 x 115 inches

Matt Gagnon

Gagnon studied architecture at Cornell University before joining the studios of Gaetano Pesce and Frank Gehry. He has taught design at Otis College of Art, Parsons School of Constructed Environments and has been invited to speak at Savannah College of Art and Design, Woodbury School of Architecture, City College of New York and University of Central Oklahoma. He has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Metropolis, Surface, Interior Design and Dwell. Additionally, Gagnon has been commissioned by Peter Marino (for Chanel and Louis Vuitton), MTV, The Four Seasons and Ritz Carlton hotel groups, Google and NASA’s Deep Space Network facility in Pasadena, CA.

Matt Gagnon, Copper & Glass, 2022, Concrete, glass, acrylic, wood, steel and LED lights, 76 x 10 x 10 inches

Installed at Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York

Installed in a private collection

Sally Gall

Throughout her successful career, Sally Gall has photographed the natural world, using her keen eye for composition to create abstractions of familiar subjects. “I have photographed the beauty and mystery of the natural world – its elemental and sometimes terrifying aspects, its silence, its persistence. I photograph with an ever deepening appreciation for how this place shapes us, even as we shape it with our passage.”

Sally Gall lives and works in New York City. Her work is held in numerous museums and private collections worldwide, notably the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Sally is the recipient of prestigious fellowships, including two MacDowell Colony Fellowships, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency, and a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist’s Fellowship

Sally Gall, Thirst, 2001, Silver gelatin print, 22 x 16 inches

Ann Gardner

Northwest-based artist Ann Gardner creates work about repetition, pattern, and the rhythm of form. To create each piece, the artist uses a combination of mosaic and pigment-tinted concrete and glass.

Working in glass mosaic, Ann Gardner creates forms that seem to be inspired equally by architecture and nature. Arcs, discs, and waves are covered entirely in squares of colored glass. She cuts and lays these materials individually. This time-intensive process creates complex forms and patterns. While there is an element of playfulness to Gardner’s work, it is impossible to ignore its dedicated, meditative quality.

Naturally, light is an essential material in these sculptures. They reflect and refract at every angle. This interplay between light, color and form allows the work to be fluid and dynamic.

Gardner’s work is influenced by her many travels, places where she feels that the repetition of pattern offers a sense of structure and grounding amidst the surrounding dynamism and chaos. She has won numerous awards and her work is included in major collections such as the National Museum of American Art, the American Craft Museum, and the Seattle Art Museum.

Ann Gardner, Blown Glass WW, 2023, Blown glass, 58 1/2 x 20 x 21

Installed in a private collection

Installation at the San Diego County Operations Center, 2018

Installation at the San Diego County Operations Center, 2018

Peter Gronquist

Peter Gronquist is an artist who manipulates expectations through a multi-disciplinary practice. Engaged with experimentation, Gronquist uses found objects, lights, mirrors, metals and new media. Through painting, sculpture, and infinity mirrors, he forces the viewer to stop and dismantle what they are experiencing. His infinity mirrors are built to human scale, heightening the sensation that one could fall in at any moment. In his paintings, Gronquist uses subtle graduations of color and plays with the foreground and background, creating depth, and the sense of glowing light from within. Often working with contractions, Gronquist expresses concern over American consumerism, excess and escapism, which appears in narrative and formal ways throughout his work.

Born 1979 in the USA, Peter Gronquist lives and works in Portland, OR after residing in Oakland, CA. He attended the School of Visual Art New York and received a BA in painting from San Francisco Art Institute in 2001. He has exhibited in New York, London, Miami, and San Francisco. Peter’s work has been published in GQ Magazine, Hyperallergic and Wired. Gronquist was recently named as one of the top 15 new artists to collect by Business Insider.

Peter Gronquist, Burn 5, 2022, Velvet and fire on wood and plexiglass frame and acrylic paint on walnut frame, 72 x 48 inches

Installation at Untitled Art Fair, 2021

Installed in a private collection

Stephanie Hirsch

Stephanie Hirsch is a New York-based mixed media artist whose conceptual works explore themes of self-transformation and awareness. Stitching together words and imagery representing notions of strength, courage, humanity, and renewal, Hirsch questions and repositions everyday phrases. She repurposes objects generally considered masculine in nature and feminizes them as a way to show the dichotomy and duality within us all.

Stephanie Hirsch has exhibited with numerous galleries and museums, has participated in various art fairs, and is part of several permanent collections such as the Newcomb Museum at Tulane University, and the Cornell Art Museum in Delray Beach, Florida.

Stephanie Hirsch, Abundance, 2023, beads on canvas, 48 inch diameter

Catherine Howe

Catherine Howe’s paintings are exercises in the evocative power of paint as a material. The painted surfaces vary widely in paint application, with some areas thinly glazed or quickly sketched, and others so thick they appear to be in relief. Howe’s palette is known to be strong and vibrant, though not without eerie contrasts; her technique includes splatters, spills, and the scraping away of paint. She was a Professor on the Graduate Painting Faculty at the New York Academy of Art and Chair of the Department of Critical Studies until 2021.

Catherine Howe has exhibited extensively in the United States, including solo exhibitions at Lesley Heller Workspace, Casey Kaplan Gallery, VonLintel Gallery, the William Shearburn Gallery, and more. Her work has also been included in international exhibitions in Paris, London, Munich, and Amsterdam. She currently lives both in Manhattan and a farmhouse in the Hudson Valley.

Catherine Howe, Iridescent White Painting (Skipper), 2023, acrylic mediums, interference mica and mineral pigments on canvas, 40 x 40 inches

Heather Hutchison

The work of Heather Hutchison is an inquiry into light and transparency. She is captivated by light and its play on natural surfaces. Her process is inspired by close observation and contemplation of nature. Her works are considered light sculptures or paintings.

Self-taught, her education as a painter began while traveling with her family as a child throughout California, Oregon, and Arizona. Then, in the early 1980’s, she began to work with light in earnest in the San Francisco Bay Area. She continued to do so after relocating to New York City in 1986.

Hutchison is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner award (2012), a Gottlieb Foundation Individual Artist grant (2011), and an SOS Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts (2009). Selected museum exhibitions include those at the Brooklyn Museum, Montclair Art Museum, the Smithsonian, the Knoxville Museum of Art, and the 44th Biennial Exhibition of American Painting at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. She resides in upstate New York

Heather Hutchison, Freeze, Freeze, Thou Bitter Sky, 2019, Mixed media, reclaimed Plexiglas, birch plywood box, 30 x 28 x 3 3/4 inches

Installed in a private collection

Etsuko Ichikawa

Etsuko Ichikawa is a Tokyo-born, Seattle-based, multi-media artist. She graduated from Tokyo Zokei University in Japan in 1987 with a BFA and moved to Seattle in 1993 to continue her studies.

She is a co-founder of Artists for Japan, a Seattlebased grassroots group to support the relief efforts of Great East Japan earthquake and aftermath, and a member of NOddIN, a Tokyo-based collective of filmmakers and creators who are paying attention to various social, political, and environmental issues.

Ichikawa’s work has been exhibited internationally, including Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Seattle Art Museum, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, and The Ueno Royal Museum in Tokyo.

She has received grants from numerous institutions including the Pollock Krasner Foundation and Americans for the Arts Funding, and her exhibit NACHI was supported by Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and National Endowment for the Arts. Her work was featured in Crafted: Objects in Flux published by MFA Boston and reviewed in national publications such as Sculpture Magazine, NY Arts Magazine, and GLASS Quarterly.

Etsuko Ichikawa, Vitrified 2320, 2020, Glass pyrograph and watercolor on paper, 38 x 52 inches

Installed in a private collection

Andreas Kocks

German artist Andreas Kocks works in massive and meticulously crafted installations of cut paper, metal, and wood. He begins each of his works as a series of drawings before rendering the works in his signature paper or metal forms.

He carves thick sheets of watercolor paper or laser cuts metal sheets to create textured, layered works that give the illusion of three-dimensional brush strokes, splatters, and drips. Kocks’ forms seek to evoke and balance elements of four artistic genres: the linearity of drawing, the painterly brushstroke, the site-specific element of architecture, and the physicality of sculpture.

Andreask Kocks born in Oberhausen, Germany. He received his MFA in Sculpture from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and his MA in education at the University of Düsseldorf. In 2006 he was awarded a PollockKrasner Foundation fellowship. In addition to exhibiting at museums and galleries in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Finland, England, and the United States, he has received numerous commissions from private and public clients. His works can be seen in museums and private collections in Europe and America.

Andreas Kocks, State of Mind, 2021, Gold leaf on wood, Edition of 3, 36¾ x 11¾ x 13 inches

Installed in a private collection

Installed in a private collection

Tanya Minhas

Tanya Minhas is a New York based visual artist. Raised in Karachi, Pakistan, the artist moved to the United States to attend Princeton University. She received her graduate degree from Columbia University, and painted portraits in oil at The Arts Students League.

Her current work reflects her practice of repetitive drawing, utilizing ink, paint, and other various media. She meditatively explores the state of harmony between the internal and the external, the visible and the invisible, the tangible and the elusive. Through these explorations, she examines how the strength of one’s intrinsic life force affects this harmony, offering an impetus that seeks to balance our internal lives with an increasingly tempestuous external world.

“Each painting is about an invisible memory or impression left by the myriad forces in nature: a leaf falling to the earth displaces air as it falls, tracing an invisible pattern, that I can see with my heart, or my imagination, or whatever it is in myself that finds these moments important. And yet, I am unable to express the awe of it precisely with words.”- Tanya Minhas

Installed at Topping Rose House

Tanya Minhas, The Moon Taps at the Ocean’s Heart - Summer Stage 2, 2019, acrylic on wood panel, 9 x 12 inches

Ethan Murrrow

Ethan Murrow was born in 1975 in Greenfield, Massachusetts in the United States. Raised on a sheep farm in Vermont, he received his Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College and his Master of Fine Arts from The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Ethan’s research and practice focuses on historical narratives and the idealized and uncomfortable ways in which they are told, retold and molded into powerful, absurd and subjective tales. In addition to works on paper, he develops large scale wall drawings, murals and installations for site specific projects and exhibitions, working closely with local communities, stakeholders, institutions and corporations.

Recent solo museum shows include the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, The Cahoon Museum of American Art, The Currier Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville and the Clay Center in West Virginia. Ethan was recently awarded the Stein Emerging Artist Prize by MOCA Jacksonville, participated as Artist in residence at Expedia Group and Facebook Inc., was a fellow at the Ballinglen Foundation in Ireland, and received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship. His work is in many public, private and corporate collections and has been reviewed and published widely around the world.

Ethan Murrow is a Professor of the Practice at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University where he specializes in Drawing and sitespecific projects.

Ethan Murrow, The Alchemist, 2024, graphite on paper, 36 x 36 inches

Site-specific wall mural at Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York

Site Specific wall mural at Expedia Group Air

Installed at the Currier Museum, Manchester, New Hapshire 2018

Angelina Nasso

The work of Angelina Nasso, a New York-based artist, is inspired by nature. Nasso sites as inspirations the night air, the sky, the mist, the clouds, the trees, and withered leaves. Her process is intuitive. She carefully establishes layers of transparent paint in a meditative manner.

Luminous spots and disks appear to float on the smooth surfaces of her paintings. Brilliant in color, her works employ a vibrant and sensuous richness. She says of her art: “My imagery occurs within color itself.” Through her use of vibrant colors, small dots, and abstract forms, her works seek to reveal the transference of energy and the fluidity between our inner and outer worlds.

Nasso was born in Sydney, Australia and is currently based in upstate New York. She has studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, the China National Academy of Art, and the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Angelina Nasso, Trust, 2014, Oil on canvas, 68 x 76 inches

Installed at Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York

Jinie Park

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Deb Achak is a visual artist and storyteller whose large-scale photographs explore the metaphysical and emotional link between the human and natural world. After stepping away from a 15-year career as a mental health social worker, Achak began her photography practice, employing a visual medium to continue her exploration of the interior lives of herself and others. Curious to examine the notion of our internal selves, she leans into the elasticity of photography by employing several genres within the medium. Achak’s practice includes swimming with her camera throughout the world, personal narratives created near her home, and painterly abstract florals inspired by baroque paintings. Each body of work is made with the singular ideal, to wrestle with what is under the surface in each of us.

Based out of Seoul, South Korea, and Philadelphia, PA, Jinie Park paints thinly layered, translucent assemblages of linen, Korean muslin, organza, and hand-woven fiber to explore materiality and activated space. Through inverting painted canvasses, exposing underlying structural components, and fusing gridded sections of fabric, Park interrogates the surface as a window or partition that functions as a mechanism for shifting perspectives.

Sharing aesthetic considerations with traditional Korean women’s patchwork, called “jo-gaak-bo,” and the formalist experimentations of postminimalism, Park dissects and defamiliarizes the literal fabric of textile work into a language investigating material structure as a constant state of discovery. The heightened procedural and referential nature of Park’s paintings acknowledges a binary framework between traditional Korean textile practices and a Western sense of modernist abstraction. Park complicates and refutes this dichotomy, focusing on the physicality of liminal states, recalibrating the painting as an explorable, spatial object full of permeable boundaries

Deb Achak’s work has been exhibited widely national and internationally, in institutions such as The National Museum of Anthropology in Tabasco, Mexico, The Lishui Museum of Art in Lishui, China, and The Sofia Photography Festival in Sophia, Bulgaria, The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, the Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville SC, among many others. Her work has been featured in publications including Fraction, All About Photo, Lenscratch, Destig, Luxe Interiors, Dodho, and Domino.

Jinie Park, Frost, 2024, acrylic on sewn Kwangmok (Korean muslin) and Sambe (Korean linen), pine, 42 x 30 inches

Artist in the studio

Tracy Rocca

Tracy Rocca’s work consists of intricate layers that are carefully built over time. From this process, they achieve a characteristic luminosity and unique sense of depth.

Her abstract compositions are inspired from every day organic imagery seen at home in New Mexico. With digital photography, she is able to capture unfocused colors and forms in the ordinary landscape. Her blurred images are meant to serve as a reminder that calm exists amidst the chaos of daily life.

Tracy Rocca currently lives and works in Albuquerque, NM. Rocca received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington and her Post Baccalaureate from the California College of the Arts Extended Education. She has shown her work internationally and is represented in many private and public collections including the United States Embassies Collection, the Microsoft Art Collection, the Ritz Carlton and the University of New Mexico Collection.

Tracy Rocca, Zion, 2018, Oil on polyester over panel, 60 x 48 inches

Installed in a private collection

Tony Scherman

Canadian artist Tony Scherman is best known for his masterful encaustic techniques. In his paintings, pigment and wax create lush, textured, and dramatic surfaces. His portraiture and still lives are carefully imbued with a dream-like intensity. The frenetic brush-strokes also add to the arresting quality of his paintings.

Scherman frequently paints faces or imagery that is visually disconnected from the background. He often calls upon historical figures, events and periods. However, he evokes layers of deeper meaning by pairing his subjects with modern themes and symbolism.

He has exhibited extensively in the United States, Canada, and Europe. He has been featured in The New York Times, Art in America, Art Papers, and American Art Collector. His paintings are held in various public, private and corporate collections.

Tony Scherman, Mary Magdalene (19004), 2018-19, Encaustic on canvas, 36 x 36 inches

Installed at Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York

Tony Sherman, Lincoln, 2005-2006, cornmeal and encaustic on canvas, 60 x 60 inches

Timothy Schmitz

Timothy Schmitz creates objects of beauty and contemplation. His recent work is minimalist in concept but complex in technique. His art is distinguished by its understated expressiveness. Suffused in his work is a reined sense of the Japanese aesthetic notion that beauty comes from the visually modest and humble. There is a quiet grace in his current work, a purging of the extraneous and a reduction to visual essence. The luminescence and reductive elegance of his work still the mind and enable contemplative insight transcending simple intellectual conception.

Actively collected, both nationally and internationally, and is in numerous corporate and private collections across the country. He continues to work prolifically in Minneapolis, MN.

Timothy Schmitz, slab V/2 POCSY, 2022, Resin, digital pigment inkjet skins and polymers on acrylic, 26 x 18 x 3 inches

Michael Schultheis

Seattle-based artist Michael Schultheis finds inspiration and elegance in the world of analytics. Schultheis has a background in mathematics and economics, giving his wildly colored abstract paintings the appearance of chalkboards filled progressively with notations and illustrations. His expressive images mirror the abstract world of numbers and boldly invite viewers to consider the relationship between math and the human experience.

What makes Schultheis’ work relatable to any viewer is how he chooses to use these formulas and shapes. Human behavior, relationships, situational information is all translated mathematically. The speed at which we live our lives, character traits of individuals, our locations, are explained as velocity, eccentricity and radius. By sharing these stories via mathematics, Schultheis removes all judgment of behavior, and simply presents us with what is. This timeless and universal language becomes a way of connecting us all.

Michael Schultheis, Venn Profundity, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches

Installed in a private collection

Julie Speidel

Julie Speidel often works at the intersection between figuration and abstraction, suggesting the human form through combinations of elegantly simple shapes. At times, her works appear to diverge from the figure altogether, but they often preserve the basic components of bodies: circles and ovals evocative of heads, vertical forms echoing limbs. Her work encourages us to make complex associations, but it delights as well in purely formal properties; color, carefully poised compositions. Among the most remarkable aspects of Speidel’s work is its capacity to engage in dialogue with the world–not only with its natural elements, but also with the whole of human history and art.

Julie Speidel has been exhibited widely and her sculptures are included in many prestigious private and public collections in the U.S. and abroad, including the Tacoma Art Museum, three United States Embassies, the Oracle Collection, the Boeing Collection and the Nordstrom Collection.

Julie Speidel, Carrickfergus, 2022, Hand rubbed oil on Japanese paper, 38 x 26 inches

Paulette Tavormina

Paulette Tavormina lives and works in New York City. Amidst the bustle that defines the city, she can often be found at one of the city’s many farmers markets searching for the perfectly imperfect flora that characterize her photographs. Her arrangements often recall the sumptuous detail of seventeenth century Old Master still life painters and serve as intensely personal interpretations of timeless, universal stories.

She was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2016. Her monograph book, Paulette Tavormina: Seizing Beauty was published by The Monacelli Press, 2016 and reviewed by The New York Times and Architectural Digest. Tavormina’s photographs are in museum, corporate and private collections and have been exhibited in Paris, London, Moscow, Lugano, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Palm Beach, Boston, Palm Desert and San Francisco. Tavormina also works as a commercial photographer – she has photographed works of art for Sotheby’s, collaborated with The Fabulous Beekman Boys on their three heirloom cookbooks and photographed The Del Posto Cookbook published by Hachette with chef, Mark Ladner. She has been commissioned by National Geographic Magazine and The New York Times among others.

Paulette Tavormina, Dahlias and Figs, 2021, Archival pigment print, 20 x 15 inches, 30 x 22.5 inches, 48 x 36 inches

Installed at Winston Wächter Fine Art New York

Eric Uhlir

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Deb Achak is a visual artist and storyteller whose large-scale photographs explore the metaphysical and emotional link between the human and natural world. After stepping away from a 15-year career as a mental health social worker, Achak began her photography practice, employing a visual medium to continue her exploration of the interior lives of herself and others. Curious to examine the notion of our internal selves, she leans into the elasticity of photography by employing several genres within the medium. Achak’s practice includes swimming with her camera throughout the world, personal narratives created near her home, and painterly abstract florals inspired by baroque paintings. Each body of work is made with the singular ideal, to wrestle with what is under the surface in each of us.

From figuration to abstraction, Uhlir has focused on exploring his voice as a painter and developing a style that feels the most dynamic. It’s a process that allows the incorporation of a much broader array of potential references and ideas in any given painting. Uhlir’s skills of mark-making and resolving compositions are linked to his physical relationship to the scale of the artwork. His use of a large canvas allows the many layers and minute moments room to breathe.

Uhlir’s inspiration dates back to his childhood, visiting the LACMA with his mother and flipping through art catalogs. His early memories of Dutch masters and abstract expressionist paintings set the scene for today’s paintings. Uhlir continues to visit galleries weekly to soak in as much history as possible and find new ways to allow historical motifs to shine through in his work.

Deb Achak’s work has been exhibited widely national and internationally, in institutions such as The National Museum of Anthropology in Tabasco, Mexico, The Lishui Museum of Art in Lishui, China, and The Sofia Photography Festival in Sophia, Bulgaria, The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, the Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville SC, among many others. Her work has been featured in publications including Fraction, All About Photo, Lenscratch, Destig, Luxe Interiors, Dodho, and Domino.

Uhlir grew up in Southern California and earned his BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003. His work is both figurative and abstract, examining the Anthropocene in the context of art history. He exhibited at IA&A at Hilyer in Washington, DC in 2019 and with Caitlin Berry Fine Art at Culture House in 2021. His work is held in private collections internationally. He keeps a studio in Washington, DC.

Eric Uhlir, The quarrel (you did it for your own amusement), 2024, oil on linen, 74 x 80 inches

Installed at Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York

Peter Waite

Peter Waite’s large-scale paintings consider places that embody public sentiment or ideological concerns. Empty architectural monuments provide the reoccurring theme of personal and social memory. The paintings therefore invites the viewer to examine how well one knows one’s own habits of looking, of remembering, and of being certain.

Waite’s art is site-specific; he often paints from a photograph of a specific location. The places he paints are ones that viewers can easily identify, triggering personal memories of public space. The spaces are empty but there is a sense that people have just left or will soon arrive. With this latent energy, Waite’s work depicts not only architecture but also the feeling of being present within it.

Waite was born in North Adams, MA and currently works and resides in Connecticut. He studied at the Hartford Art School in West Hartford, CT where he received a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts. He earned a Masters in Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Waite has received many awards including the National Endowment for the Arts, a Gottlieb Foundation award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Pollock-Krasner Fellowship.

Peter Waite, Bethesda Terrace, 2012, acrylic on panels, 96 1/4 x 71 1/2 inches

Installed at Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York

Margeaux Walter

Margeaux Walter uses photography, video, and lenticulars to create meticulously staged social satires. She frequently draws on personal experiences and stories. Her works are intimate explorations of daily life on a familial, social, and personal level.

Walter plays with the border between reality and fantasy. Each piece is built from multiple images, real photographs, scale models, and studio portraits. She replicates the visual imagery that we constantly see in the media and advertising.

Using lenticulars, each piece allows the viewer to move along with the images. They therefore allow the viewer to immerse themselves in the embarrassment, loneliness, laughter, and uncanny moments that are present both in these images, and in every day life.

Walter was born in Seattle, Washington and currently works and resides in New York City. She studied at the Maine Photographic Workshops, Tisch School of the Arts (NYU), and Hunter College. Her works have been exhibited in museums and private collections across the country. They have also been featured in publications including The New York Times, New York Post, Seattle Times, Boston Globe and Scene Magazine.

Margeaux Walter, Sugar High, 2023, C-print with UV laminate, 24 x 32 inches

Installed in a private collection

Jil Weinstock

Jil Weinstock‘s art is drawn from memories from her past. She uses vintage nightgowns, childhood toys, and other materials to recreate and explore these memories. In her practice, rubber is used as a material to preserve, binding together objects and the memories they elicit. The common objects she focuses on are consequently transformed.

Born in Los Angeles, California, she currently works and resides in New York City. She studied at the University of California Berkeley where she received her MFA and BFA. Weinstock has been an Artist in Residence at the Museum of Art and Design in New York, NY. She is the recipient of a McGarth Grant and the Walter Gropius Award. Her work has been featured publications including The Huffington Post, Art in America, and Art News.

Jil Weinstock, Crabgrass & Primrose, 2024, photographs, rubber, plant life, and thread on Rives BFK paper, 30 x 44 inches

Installed in the artists studio

Hiro Yokose

Hiro Yokose paints images of nature composed in subtle, sensuous palettes. Playing with the viewer’s perceptions, his work creates a visual experience of recognition and mystery. Yokose’s technique involves layering oil paint and polished varnish on the canvas surface, creating soft, dream-shrouded vistas. There is the sense of the infinite in his luminous works. Yokose often paints a low horizon line in his compositions, illuminating the rest of the canvas with Turneresque skies and quiet, misty landscapes. In this way, his work hovers between a Zen-like minimalist abstraction and a traditional landscape.

Hiro Yokose was born in Nagasaki, Japan in 1951 and moved to Manhattan as a young man, where he lived and worked for the majority of his career, until returning to Japan. His works can be found in numerous collections including Microsoft, Boeing, Citibank, and San José Museum of Art.

Hiro Yokose, Untitled (#5479), 2022, Oil on canvas, 35¾ x 28¾ x 2½ inches

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